With APEX in the can and Final Round just around the corner, the Road to Evo is in full swing.  To make things a little more interesting, we’re introducing the Road to Evo Pitstops.  At four special tournaments, we’re providing $2500 in cash incentives to the winners of the Super Street Fighter IV AE 2012, Ultimate [...]

Wednesday Night Fights is back starting this February, and I’m happy to say that Shoryuken.com has signed on as a sponsor!  This means two things.  First of all, it’s personally gratifying to contribute to Level|Up’s efforts.  These guys continue to raise the bar on providing consistent, premier fighting game events.  But enough about me.  For [...]

Chubby Boy Films, The guys behind the awesome Balrog: Behind the Glory short film are planning a new project! Right now they’re looking for funding to produce the film. If they get the green light the film will debut at Evo 2012 in July. You can check out the teaser for their new project here. [...]

The fighting game boom is in full swing, and amazingly 2012 is shaping up to be biggest and best year yet. So big that we’re expanding both the Evo game roster and the Road to Evo tournament season! Without further ado, here’s a glimpse of what’s in store for Evo 2012. Evo 2012 Game Roster [...]

This weekend New York’s finest will square off in SRK’s second ever showmatch.  Eight top Marvel players will compete in a winner take all, $1000 single elimination tournament.  The action will be streamed by TeamSpooky on the SRK Live Twitch.tv channel today at 7 PM ET, 4 PM PT.  Without further ado, here are your [...]

The whole eSports vs. fighting games debate has flared up once again, with this rant from team manager for Evil Geniuses, SirScoots.  Here’s a brief summary: a segment of the FGC is just too stubborn to get along with the broader eSports community, so as a result we will never “blow up” like we could and [...]

Quick reminder that this Saturday is SRK’s first ever showmatch exhibition. Eight of Nor CA’s finest will battle at Southtown Arcade in San Francisco for a winner-take-all prize of $1000. The festivities will be streamed by Iplaywinner.com on the SRK Live twitch.tv channel. Here’s some more information about the players competing at the event. 1. [...]

Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3′s official launch is just days away, and to celebrate SRK will be hosting a set of showmatches!  In each event, 8 players from a particular region of the U.S. will square off in a single elimination, winner-take-all bracket for $1000.   The showmatch schedule is: Nov 26th, San Francisco Dec [...]

Red Rapper has released the final cut of that super smooth track we played throughout the finals of Evo 2011.  As you can see from the credits, this work is an amazing collaboration of a lot of big names in the fighting game community.  Check out the preview on YouTube and buy it on iTunes! [...]

If you’re a regular reader of this site, you’ve probably heard of eSports. With the recent release of Street Fighter IV, many in the eSports scene have championed fighting games as the next big thing, right behind the juggernaut that is Starcraft 2. The lure is big money for the players, more exposure for fighting [...]

The Evo Championship Series (www.evo2k.com), the largest fighting game tournament in the world, has beaten all previous reported records for unique online viewers of a competitive gaming event. At the Evo 2011 World Finals, held in Las Vegas, NV from July 29-31, and hosted on Ustream.tv, over 2 million unique viewers tuned in to the [...]

Well, we’ve put another Evo in the books, and I think I can say without a doubt it was our best Evo ever. And when I say “our” I mean all of us. While Evo is about brutal tournaments, international competition, and guts, it’s the heart and bonds within the community that makes Evo special. [...]

Here are the five legendary players who will compete in Evo’s Third Strike Grandmaster Challenge. The exhibition will take place at around 3:30 PM this Sunday. Hsien Chang Fubarduck Mike Z Sanchez Amir

For those of you attending Evo and watching the action at home, here is the schedule of all EVO proceedings. All times are PDT. Thursday, July 28th 2:00 PM – 8:00 PM: Early Badge Pickup, Outside of the Pavilion Ballroom 10:00 PM:  Official Evo Pre-Party @ Insert Coin(s) Friday, July 29th Tournament Schedule 8:00 AM [...]

The signup deadline has passed.  The brackets are set.  This weekend thousands of players will lay it on the line for the title of Evo 2011 Champion.  We all have our favorite players and love handicapping the most anticipated matches, right?  Well this year we’ve prepared a little something to help you in your theory-crafting, [...]